Ecology

Environment any coldOrganization solitaryTreasure standard

Special Abilities

Abduction (Ex) A wind walker wendigo gains Snatch as a bonus feat, and can use Snatch on targets two or more sizes smaller. Each round it flies while grappling a humanoid creature, that creature is exposed to wendigo psychosis (see below).

Cannibalism Aura (Su) All humanoid creatures within 120 feet of a windwalker wendigo must make a successful DC 25 Will save to resist sudden pangs of hunger. A failed save results in 1d6 points of nonlethal damage and fatigue from starvation. This nonlethal damage cannot be healed until the character consumes food. A character that’s undergone an act of cannibalism in the past 24 hours is immune to this effect. This is a mind-affecting effect. The save DC Is Charisma-based.

Stormcloak (Su) A windwalker wendigo is constantly shrouded in a cloak of winds that grants it a deflection bonus to its Armor Class equal to its Charisma modifier (+6 for the typical windwalker). Its stormcloak also allows it to ignore the effects of wind on movement, and gives it immunity to winds caused by spells or supernatural effects unless it chooses to be affected by them.

Stormsight (Ex) A windwalker wendigo can see through fog, mist, snowfall, and obscuring storm effects as if they were perfectly clear, ignoring the miss chance for these obstructions, up to its normal range of vision.

Wendigo Psychosis (Su) A windwalker’s wendigo psychosis can be resisted with a successful DC 27 Will save, and has no onset—its initial effects apply immediately. It is otherwise identical to the wendigo psychosis on page 396 for more details.

Becoming a windwalker wendigo is the ultimate fate of those who succumb to the psychosis of the wendigo, an aberrant monstrosity that serves as a herald to the Great Old One, Ithaqua. Wendigos seek to expand their population in the frozen reaches of the world, whether through direct action (by abducting humanoids or spreading their psychosis via bites) or indirect action (by forcing famines and starvation via the manipulation of weather). In so doing, they expand the faith of Ithaqua like a disease.

The windwalker wendigo does not truly have a weight or mass, though when confronted, it seems to be truly massive at 30 or more feet tall.